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2. Metopius (Metopius) mimicus, new species 



Figures 167,a; 183,d 



Front wing 7 to 11 mm. long; punctures on facial shield rather 

 small, of irregular size, and strong, their interspaces about 0.5 their 

 diameters; lower tooth of mandible present as a small separated 

 projection; punctures on mesopleurum rather small, strong, their 

 interspaces about 0.6 their diameters; punctures on metapleurum 

 moderately coarse, strong, subadjacent; first tergite about 0.70 as 

 long as wide, in profile strongly rounded above, about 1.55 as long 

 as high; third tergite about 0.90 as long as wide; seventh tergite of 

 male and sixth tergite of female with a blunt median apical angle 

 which is moderately raised. 



Black. Face except for a median vertically elliptical area, inter- 

 antennal process, side of frons, scape beneath, palpi, small tinge on 

 upper margin of pronotum, spot on subtegular ridge, apical 0.2 to 0.3 

 and extreme basolateral corner of scutellum, postscutellum, usually 

 apex of coxae, most of trochanters, extreme base and broader apex 

 of femora, most of front and upper sides of fore and middle tibiae, 

 most of hind tibia, most of apical 0.7 of first tergite, apicolateral 

 corners of second tergite, apical 0.3 of third tergite, fourth to seventh 

 tergites except base and basolateral grooves of fourth and fifth 

 tergites, and male genitalia, yellow; antenna fulvous, shaded to 

 blackish beyond basal third; median elliptical mark on facial shield 

 black to fulvous; upper margin of pronotum, upper anterior part of 

 mesopleurum, tegula, longitudinal stripe below sternaulus, spot on 

 metapleurum, often a pair of longitudinal stripes or a median apical 

 spot on mesoscutum, more or less of scutellum, spot at apex of second 

 lateral area of propodeum, areas or tinges on first tergite, apical 0.65 

 to 0.75 of second tergite (except for yellow apical spots), and third 

 tergite from basal 0.3 ± to apical 0.3 ±, rufous; front and middle legs 

 fulvous except where described as yellow; hind coxa apically and 

 above largely ferruginous; hind femur ferruginous except where 

 described as yellow, and blackish on hind side; hind tibia fulvous and 

 yellowish, infuscate apically on hind side; hind tarsus pale brown; 

 wings light yellowish brown, the front half of front wing darker brown. 



Type: 9, near YMCA Camp, Workman Creek, Sierra Ancha, Ariz., 

 May 8, 1947, H. and M. Townes (Washington, USNM 63613). 



Paratypes: 4 c?, 19, Oak Creek Canyon, Ariz., May 18, 1947, H. and 

 M. Townes (Townes). 2d\ Pocket Creek, Sierra Ancha, Ariz., May 

 5, 1947, H. and M. Townes (Townes). 2d\ Sierra Ancha, Ariz., June 

 16, 1927 (Washington). 90 d", 49, near YMCA Camp, Workman 

 Creek, Sierra Ancha, Ariz., April 28 and 30, 1947, and May 6 and 8, 

 1947, H. and M. Townes (Townes). 



